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The Human difference : animals, computers, and the necessity of social science / Alan Wolfe

Wolfe, Alan, 1942-

Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1993

Online Ressource (xvii, 243 pages)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-235) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Human difference

978-0-520-91561-9 ( : electronic bk.); 0-520-91561-5 (electronic bk.); 0-585-27417-7 (electronic bk.); 978-0-585-27417-1 ( : electronic bk.)

0-520-08013-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-08941-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-08013-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 45729552     

OCoLC: 45729552 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

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1. A distinct science for a distinct species. Sociology's fragility. Nature's revenge. Equality at what price? the interpreting self and the meaningful society -- 2. Other animal species and us. Social theory and the second biological revolution. The case for other animals. What sociobiology teaches us. Tertiary rules and human choice -- 3. Mind, self, society, and computer. Respect for machines. The human essence test. Software intelligence. Hardware intelligence. Computers, humans, and rules -- 4. Putting nature first. The environmental impulse. Animal rights and human imagination. Deep ecology. Gaia. The computer in the woods -- 5. The post-modern void. Between the sacred and the profane. Beneath the sacred and the profane. Information versus meaning. Algorithmic justice. A world safe for systems -- 6. Social science as a way of knowing. The two faces of social science. Methodological pluralism. Sociological realism. Social science as a vocation. Is sociology necessary? -- 7. Society on its own terms. Competing metaphors. What social institutions are for. Philosophical anthropology revisited.